Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] 2.6 branch planning and post-branch changes
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From: Uli Heilmeier <zeugs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 15:00:31 +0100
> 
>> Renaming protocols to match current reality, e.g. "bootp" to "dhcp" and "ssl" to "tls".
> 
> The latter makes sense; the former is a little weird, given that, technically, DHCP is a protocol that's implemented with BOOTP options, but if there's not much BOOTP-without-DHCP traffic now, it probably won't bother people that they need to type "dhcp" to refer to BOOTP.
> 

What about having a display filter alias „dhcp“ for „bootp“? This way inexperienced users would be able to see DHCP by using „dhcp“ as a filter.

-1 for renaming „bootp"
+/- 0 for renaming „ssl"